Anti-Matter with Fries (short story)

Anti-Matter with Fries
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace
Main enemy:	The Ergon, Omega
Main setting:	Perivale, 1980s
Key crew
Writer:	Gareth Roberts
Release details
Printed in:	Doctor Who Magazine 199
Release date:	15 April 1993
Cover date:	12 May 1993
Brief Encounter
← Previous	Three Steps to the Left
Next →	Missing in Action

Anti-Matter with Fries was a Brief Encounter short story published in Doctor Who Magazine 199. It was a comedic story that portrayed Omega in a lighthearted manner.

Summary

Ace is working in a fast-food restaurant in Perivale when she encounters who she thinks is her friend Barry Groves dressed in a funny chicken costume. She gives "Barry" a box of fries but does not realise this is actually the Ergon scouting Earth in service of the Time Lord Omega. When he gets the fries, Omega complains about the lack of salt. She later tells the Seventh Doctor about this over table tennis in the Cloister Room.

Characters

• Seventh Doctor
• Ace
• Omega
• The Ergon

References

• Ace thinks the Ergon is her friend Barry in a funny chicken costume. She gives it a box of fries, which it takes back to the anti-matter universe.
• Omega can eat fries once they've passed through the Arc of Infinity. He seems to prefer sodium chloride on his fries, and is annoyed that those brought back by the Ergon don't have any.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• Ace previously met Tegan Jovanka while working in a fast food restaurant. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus)
• The Ergon passes through the Arc of Infinity. (TV: Arc of Infinity)
• The Doctor and Ace play table tennis in the Cloister Room. (TV: Logopolis)

External links

• Anti-Matter with Fries at the Doctor Who Reference Guide